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once there they can do things like help the existing government or scale all all the way up to combat operations. the marines say they need right at the cold war. they build the forces for it. there remains the primary contribution to national defense. >> was very strong, done to push this change? >> there were quite a few who were important, but rather than focus on the leaders, the argument of underdogs that a marine service culture is really an understudy causal factor in all these changes, in the mission changes in their public relations successes and political lobbying, which is a fascinating story. and assorted main argument is the way the marines thought about themselves, the way they thought about warfare and the way they thought about other services was really unique. it was different from the way the other services that they and it gave them a cohesion and assertive energy not seen in the other services. really, it's all an elaborate proof of the claim by dr. samuel jackson of an indian it concentrates his mind wonderfully. the mine fought in world war ii? and korea had a lo
once there they can do things like help the existing government or scale all all the way up to combat operations. the marines say they need right at the cold war. they build the forces for it. there remains the primary contribution to national defense. >> was very strong, done to push this change? >> there were quite a few who were important, but rather than focus on the leaders, the argument of underdogs that a marine service culture is really an understudy causal factor in all...
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after the war sheridan carried out the government's reconstruction policies in louisiana and texas. he waged a cold war on the mexican border. during the plains indian wars sheridan was the army's top indian fighter. eventually he became commander in chief of the army and surprisingly sheridan save yellowstone national park from exploitation. sheridan grew up in ohio and graduated from west point in 1853. when the civil war began in 1861 sheridan was an obscure 30 year-old infantry captain serving in the oregon territory. grant first recognized sheridan's abilities in 1862 when sheridan was commanding a cavalry brigade that defeated a larger rebel force in mississippi three months after shiloh. in chattanooga in november 1863 grant watched sheridan and his division storm missionary ridge and then pursue it the confederates for hours when no one else did. grant knew then that sheridan was much like him, someone who would act promptly, who would fight always come into would never quit. >> you can watch this and other programs online at booktv.org. >> and now from the texas book festiv
after the war sheridan carried out the government's reconstruction policies in louisiana and texas. he waged a cold war on the mexican border. during the plains indian wars sheridan was the army's top indian fighter. eventually he became commander in chief of the army and surprisingly sheridan save yellowstone national park from exploitation. sheridan grew up in ohio and graduated from west point in 1853. when the civil war began in 1861 sheridan was an obscure 30 year-old infantry captain...
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he's a leader at the harvard kennedy school of government and we we are pleased as a former naval officer that he would support our book. this one doesn't work forward with knock your socks off. we had general allen, the senior leader of our joint mission in afghanistan, admiral locklear, the senior naval officer for other regions in asia. we also had admiral malik, former chairman of the joint chiefs who sent it to classmate, john, and his other son graduated in 03 misleading sailors today. he wrote his connection to the cause. this nonprofit book, this humble book that is good for the country. and then mr. brokaw. for nine at the e-mailed his assistant. i tried really hard and i pushed and pushed, but i don't quite. and the final weeks, he submitted his blurb that has changed this book. i have some bad news. there is more security around tom brokaw and admiral mullen. [laughter] sewer with the next greatest generation? as the lead author of this project, i would say we are prepared for greatness. we served in unique ways. with blood and lost classmates and ship me and subordinates and s
he's a leader at the harvard kennedy school of government and we we are pleased as a former naval officer that he would support our book. this one doesn't work forward with knock your socks off. we had general allen, the senior leader of our joint mission in afghanistan, admiral locklear, the senior naval officer for other regions in asia. we also had admiral malik, former chairman of the joint chiefs who sent it to classmate, john, and his other son graduated in 03 misleading sailors today. he...
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see a lot of parallels between vietnam and afghanistan supporting, installing, supporting a corrupt government. a war of insurgency. one minute they are plowing their fields and the next minute they are shooting. misguided policy, would you care to draw any other parallel observations? >> if you -- i can get your e-mail address and send you my new york times op-ed which does more comparisons and answer a few of them for you. >> time has run out but for those who still have questions i can take some so thank you very much for coming. >> tell us what you think of our programming this weekend. you can't reach us at booktv. comment on our facebook call or send us an e-mail. booktv, nonfiction books every weekend on c-span2. up next, eric greitens talks about his book "the warrior's heart". an adaptation of his memoirs of becoming a navy seal. this is just under an hour. [applause] >> a round of applause. thank you very much. one of the things that is fun about being here, i am from st. louis. it is good to do these things. i have some wonderful people who saved my life, my second grade teacher is
see a lot of parallels between vietnam and afghanistan supporting, installing, supporting a corrupt government. a war of insurgency. one minute they are plowing their fields and the next minute they are shooting. misguided policy, would you care to draw any other parallel observations? >> if you -- i can get your e-mail address and send you my new york times op-ed which does more comparisons and answer a few of them for you. >> time has run out but for those who still have questions...
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pieces of themselves they can't get proper treatment from our own government. and there's really no excuse for it because i run a business now and it can be done. they're just not doing it. i don't incus willfulness click on their part. i think they just don't know what to do and they've got the wrong people running it. i hate to see the figures of military veterans, you know, that are homeless, can't get treatment. i'm not talking about guys that sat out they are working in a bx somewhere. not that there's anything wrong with it, but the guys you've seen the elephant, been part of that, come back a little bit different ip or are missing parts of themselves, and they deserve better. that's what i would say is missing if i had to put a label to it. make sense? something else. you guys got to help me here. we've got to talk for 10 minutes. you can either ask or i can talk. she's putting you on the spot good >> how about upt? you guys want to ask anything? [inaudible] -- any advice, stories, or your 2 cents after the fact. >> boy, was i full of myself then. he spe
pieces of themselves they can't get proper treatment from our own government. and there's really no excuse for it because i run a business now and it can be done. they're just not doing it. i don't incus willfulness click on their part. i think they just don't know what to do and they've got the wrong people running it. i hate to see the figures of military veterans, you know, that are homeless, can't get treatment. i'm not talking about guys that sat out they are working in a bx somewhere. not...
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time and again he declared that the federal government possess no such power. this deep commitment to the constitution he could say nothing of. lincoln even supported by one measure aimed at compromise they came out of congress that admission, the original 13th amendment. which would have made the prohibition of slavery in the states almost impossible. it did pass the congress and would undoubtedly would've been put in the constitution. even in his inaugural address, lincoln expressed his support for this amendment whic which yn would've made the abolition of slavery almost impossible. he simply could not count a direct assault on slavery where it existed, but by the waiting territorial expansion with the institution of slavery itself, lincoln found a way past the constitutional barrier. slavery he pronounced must remain within its borders, and that fashion he could place the evil in a stock a. thus -- stockade. free reason, lincoln's ambush of the south, his partisanship, is -- [inaudible] on the slaves of the deny states, abraham lincoln was a new. he rejecte
time and again he declared that the federal government possess no such power. this deep commitment to the constitution he could say nothing of. lincoln even supported by one measure aimed at compromise they came out of congress that admission, the original 13th amendment. which would have made the prohibition of slavery in the states almost impossible. it did pass the congress and would undoubtedly would've been put in the constitution. even in his inaugural address, lincoln expressed his...
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them how to drink water without dying, showing them how to take care of themselves, reestablishing a government, getting rid of the bad element. you don't see that in hollywood because guess what? you are all spoiled as americans to we're all spoiled as americans. you go there and it's time to sit and watch a movie and you think you know what's going on and/or. we are the most self-centered nation. we've had it so good for so long. if we don't open our eyes come if we don't start looking around, if we don't start paying attention we're not going to hold that distinction for very long. this is what it looks like now in somalia. that's what it looked like when i got there in 1993. we've changed that. now unfortunately this picture was just taken last summer. that's what -- that's what it looks like now. because we didn't finish the job. let me tell you something. i'm not a political person but i'm going to talk to you today about presidents, republicans and democrats. i'm a teamwork person. and by not finishing the job there as a team, we were still stuck with this problem today. these people are
them how to drink water without dying, showing them how to take care of themselves, reestablishing a government, getting rid of the bad element. you don't see that in hollywood because guess what? you are all spoiled as americans to we're all spoiled as americans. you go there and it's time to sit and watch a movie and you think you know what's going on and/or. we are the most self-centered nation. we've had it so good for so long. if we don't open our eyes come if we don't start looking...
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who would govern? another question was who would govern in the south? would republican regime imposed upon the south by union troops, would they governed, will would the pre-war majority govern in the south? grant became something of a sympathetic figure. he was a good union general. he was the one who granted generous surrender terms to we's troops in appomattox believing upon the war's end they had to get back to the south which was starring as a result of the war and in no small part because of grant's strategy in places like georgia the south was starving. 11 take their horses to go back and plow their fields and treating them once again as fellow americans rather than rebels. when his troops began to cheer about the surrender he told them to be quiet. these are our country men now so grant became the sympathetic general. chairman remained the devil incarnate until the end of his days so grant became a unifying figure and i could elaborate on this a little more. [laughter] >> not that i am trying to insert myself in your conversation but i really wa
who would govern? another question was who would govern in the south? would republican regime imposed upon the south by union troops, would they governed, will would the pre-war majority govern in the south? grant became something of a sympathetic figure. he was a good union general. he was the one who granted generous surrender terms to we's troops in appomattox believing upon the war's end they had to get back to the south which was starring as a result of the war and in no small part because...